Bumper



Oct. 2 1923. 1,469,592

1 P. HALLADAY BUMPER Filed Dec. l. 1922 4fitter ney Patented Oct. 2, 1923.

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\ LEWIS P, HALLADAY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

BUMPER.

..1.plication illed December 1, 1922. Serial No. Btl'.`

To all whom 'it may concern: l

Be it known that I, Lnwrs P;HALLA1 AY, a citizen of the United States, residin at Decatur, in the county of Macon and tute of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bumpers, of which the following is a s ecfication. y

This invention-re ates to improvements 1n automobile bumper bars of the type wherein the bumper is vertically widened throughout at least a portion of its length, and wherein i `a vertically extended impact surface is provided. One object of the invention is to provide a bumper of this type whichhas a large measure of strength from front to rear so that in the ease of impact with an obstacle, it will not readily give way or be broken or bent. Other objects will 4appear from time to time throughout the specification and claims.

My invention is illustrated more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device;

'Figure 2 is a plan view of the device shown in Figure l. Y

Like parts are designated by like charac ters throughout.

` The bumper proper is formed of two members, the member A commencing at the point A1, bentto form the loop A, upwardly bent at A, laterally bent at A4, extending laterally at A, downwardly bent at A and terminating at A7 at which point it is riveted or otherwise securel fastened to the member B. This mem er is prrespondingly shaped, commencing at4 B1, bent to form the loop B2, downwardly bent at B, laterally bent at B, laterally exendedto form the member B, upwardly bent at B and ter- `minating at B where it is riveted or otherwise firmly secured to the member A.

To the rear of each of the loops A?, B2, is attached an engaging member C, C which is adjustably held in position by means of the set screws C1, C1. The members C are provided to engage' the bumper supporting bars C2, C2, which extend rearwardly and are at tachedl to 'any suitable bracket or fitting on the automobile frame, whereby the bumper is supported from the frame.

D is a reinforcing member extending laterally and lying in rear of the vertically widened portion of the bumper, and lying in the Same horizontal pl anc as the narrowed portions of the bumper. it is riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to the members A, and B at their ends A1, B1 respectively: It is provided with forwardly bent portions D1, D1 and is Vsecured at the ends of these portions to the members A and B at the points A7 and B' respectively.

By means of the reinforcing-,member D, I have produced a. bumper which is double throughout its length. The greatest measure of rotection given kby bumpers is not in wit standing small bumps but is in withstanding shoeks of great violence, shocks sufficient to distort the bumper and to bend it beyond its elastic limit and thereby to cause the parts to take a permanent set. If a bumper under such extreme shocks does not break but merely bends, it renders its reatest measure of rotection. Thus in the umper shown, shou d a violent blow be delivered upon the vbumper anywhere along its vertically widened portion, the bumper will bend inward and at first the greatest strain will come upon. the reinforcing member which tends to resist separation of the ends of the bumper, and also tends to resist the crushing of the bumper which would spring its front and rear together. If the blow continues, the rear reinforcing member D will ultimately fail and then at the time when the greatest necessity arises, the front double portion of the bumper, which is nally its strongest portion, remains and can continue the work of shielding the car fromthe blow. Thus bythe construction shown the bumper is strengthened for all ordinary light blows, and for violent and extremely heavy blows which might destroy it, it is provided with. a two part main resistn frame which greatly strengthens its resistance to 'such crushing blows.

Although have shown an operative invention, still it will be obvious that many changeslin size, shape, and arrangement of parts miht be made Without der `rting Ina-- terially rom the spirit of my invention, and I wish therefore that my showing be taken as in a sense diagrammatic.

I claim:

l. A: bumper bar including two identi--V cally shaped members associated to form a pair of horizontallyr disposed spring loops joined by a single vertically disposed spring; loop, said single loop bring substantially in line with the forward 'faces of said loops, there being a rearward reinforcing member lili! in the sume horizontal plane as said loops und in line with their rear faces, said reinforring member being.;r joined at its ends to said vertically disposed loop and being joined intermediate its ends to the rear ends of said spring members.

2. A bumper bar including two identically Shaped members associated to form a air of horizontally disposed spring loops Joined by a single vertirally disposed spring loop, said single loop being substantially in line with the forward faves of said loops, there being a rearward reinforeiiip; member in the suine horizontal plane as said loops and in line with their rear fares, and in rear of the center of said vertically disposed loop, said reinforcing member being joined at its ends to said vertically disposed loop and being joined intermediate its ends to the rear ends of said spring members.

3. A bumper bar including two identically shaped members associated to form a air of horizontally disposed loops joined liy a single vertically disposed loop, said horizontally disposed loops beine' laterally spaced away from each other, and bumper supporting;r brackets removably attached to each of said loops in its rear, said loops being joined in lino with their rear sides'by a laterally extending reinforcing member,

said member provided with forwardly extending ends joined to the front of the bumper adjacent the ends ol the Xertieally disposed loop.

L A bumper bar including;r two identirally shaped springr members associated to form a pair of horizontally disposed loops joined by a single vertically disposed loop, there being a rearward reinforcingr member in line with the rear fares of said horizontally disposed loops and being joined at its ends to the Vertirally disposed loop and joined intermediate its ends to the rear of the spring members.

5. A bumper bar including two identically shaped spring members assoeiated to form a pair of horizontally disposed sprin r loops joined by a single vertirally dispose spring loop. there beinpr a rearward reinforcing member in line throughout the niajor portion of its length with the rear faces of said horizontally disposed loops, said reinforcing member being joined at its ends to said vertirally disposed loop and heini.,r joined intermediate its ends to the rear ends of said springr members.

Signed at Chicago, eoilnty of (look and State of Illinois, this 24th day ol" November, 1922.

LEWIS l. HALLADAY. 

